On 11/17/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's certainly part of it; but it's certainly not all of it. Mostly, > it's the difference between being a tool and a framework. The distutils > provides all the mechanism you like, and none of the policy. That was a > brilliant political move, as it dodges all the infighting that otherwise > would have stopped it getting off the ground. However, there's no longer > any reason *not* to have One Official Python Way To Do It, and to > streamline the tools around that philosophy.
This seems to me to be a good point. However, wouldn't a relatively simple way of addressing it be just to *document* the One Official Way (ideally, in the Python documentation, but maybe hosted elsewhere as well for users of current and older versions)? You're right in saying (elsewhere, I think - I can't find the exact quote now) that the distutils documentation is a bit lacking in "how should I do it" help like this. You could add a footnote somewhere that setuptools is limited to support of projects following this approach. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
